Return to Freud: Jacques Lacan's Dislocation of Psychoanalysis (Literature Culture Theory Series Number 1)

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In this major work leading theorist Samuel Weber provides a much-needed introduction to the thought of Jacques Lacan. Professor Weber approaches his subject from a dual perspective: he reads Lacan in the light of Freud (whose work Lacan is concerned to interpret) and from the perspective of structuralism above all Saussure from whom Lacan borrows and develops a distinctive conception of language as signifier. Lacan is shown to contribute crucially to the rethinking of subjectivity that marks much of contemporary literary theory and his return to Freud - the complex relationship between his work and its Freudian antecedents - is explored extensively. The result made available here for the first time in English (in a form thoroughly revised updated and augmented by the author) is a constantly illuminating work of intellectual enquiry with important implications for our age.